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Captive
Ant was freaking out with the sun. He was getting weak — he hadn’t eaten. I sighed. “He needs water?” Alex asked. But it was Nox with a flaming bird behind him that said. “No. He needs something else.” He pulled his sleeve up and pulled Ant’s contraption from his face and looked up at…
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Trusting a Stray
I growled at myself for following a Stray through a drift so we could bring him home. Except Ryan wasn’t anchored and now we were all fucking lost in a drift. Ryan put his hand on my shoulder and a wave of calm washed over me. Not only were we in the godforsaken sun but…
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Totally Prehistoric
The problem with being adrift meant that the only way home was through The Nexus. And since I didn’t know where the Nexus was in this Shift I couldn’t exactly head towards it even though that’s what I told Alex. I don’t know why he came after me. I’m not sure that I’m glad he…
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Where Did he go?
The watch’s directions weren’t wrong. I found Nox. I found him fighting a vampire with two other men in the park. But it was his smile and the feel of his fingers against my cheek that pulled me back to the reality that I was in his world — for real. But we didn’t get…
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The Nexus
I left Alex in my apartment and I ran to the Nexus building. It was only a mile and I passed several other manifestations confused on the street, but they were not a danger — at least not yet. The moment I stepped through the metal and glass arch way that was the Nexus the…
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Death and Children
It had been a long time since Cari went over the deep end. A very long time. One that I had never seen, and one I was there to prevent since the day I joined her as food and eyes. I was to be her life companion. But then she had Ant. He was our…
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Too Late
The day was new, but mother held to the old ways — sleep at day, awake at night. She was slumbering in her room. Ryan and I tip-toed around the small house watching. She’d not feed in three days — her last foray into the real world ended disastrously and neither of us wanted to…
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Where the Fuck?
The light vanished. “What the fuck?” I blinked away the last vestiges of spots to find Nox battling the girl who had been just an echo in the room before. I held my hand up and sighed with relief, the battle shone through with blurred opacity of my hand. It was strange being an echo…
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Explosion of Light
The house rattled. The light faded and my vision was impaired as the once translucent girl rushed towards me claws and teeth gnashing. If it weren’t for Nyx chattering in my mind I wouldn’t have leapt from the bed in time to miss the grotesque fingers reaching for my leg. I jumped off the bed…
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Phantom Edits
I rubbed the water from my hair as I walked out of my bathroom glancing at the laptop open on my writing desk. It had been thirty minutes since I typed ‘The End — for now’ on the last page of my manuscript. I chewed on my bottom lip before I sat back down in…
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The Outer Rings
The purple haze of the nearest Shift shone through the bedroom window as I lay propped up on my bed listening to the latest tale from the translucent man sitting in his translucent arm chair. The fiery glow of Nyx’s feather on my chest glowed a bright yellow-orange as the Phoenix listened and reverberated in…
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Echoes Static Site
So in an attempt to make quick character sheets AJ fell in love with a layout and a look that she started using in Obsidian MD (her note taking and markdown app). We’ve attempted to make them here and I’ve shown off a copy already. And we’ll be using variations on them as we go…
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Character Blocks
AJ spent a part of her morning yesterday working on character blocks that we can edit for each post. Something better than when we were doing Riva. So here are the base blocks: Alex Brizo is an Inquisitive Dream walking Explorer with latent talents who Commands Mental Powers and is an Anchor from Shift #0…
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Phoenix Bound
Bears the Phoenix Feather Requires: Bound Magic Creature as an origin ability, 3 disadvantages and added Tier Advancement Requirement. Tier 1: Shroud of FlameTier 2: Hurl FlameTier 3: Font of Healing or Wings of FireTier 4: Flame blade Tier 5: Fire Tendrils Tier 6: Restore Life or Fire Servant Tier Advancement Addition: In order to…
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Origins
We talked more specifically about origins two weeks ago. AJ created a new Focus that is a part of my Origin. Basically we took my origin and my focus and made it all one thing so that it meshed better to make a more cohesive story. But today, we are going to present the other…
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New Faces (kinda)
So AJ doesn’t want to have the real life folks spread across the website, so we found some avatars and icons. We’ll be using the ones with the Neon background for the look of me and my friends.
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Nyx, The Young Phoenix
Nyx is a special creature, almost an NPC so has a bit more to it than other typical Cypher System creatures. Nyx is a Beneficent Young Phoenix who Protects the Feather Bearer 3 (9) Description: A large bird with bright red, orange, and yellow feathers. A crest on his head and long tail feathers. The…
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Nox Luxignis
Nox Luxignis is a Mystical Warrior Contains a Phoenix Descriptor: Mystical (53)Type: Warrior (20)Flavor: Magic (36)Focus: Contains a Phoenix (homebrew)Origin: Shift #0Aspect: Drifter Stats Age: 23Tier: 1Effort: 1XP: 0 Might: 13 (0)Speed: 11 (1)Intellect: 12 (0) Armor: 0 Recovery Rolls: 1d6+□ Action□ Ten Minutes□ One Hour□ Ten Hours Damage Track:□ Impaired□ Debilitated Cypher Limit: 2…
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Alex Brizo
Alex Brizo is an Inquisitive Explorer who Commands Mental Powers Descriptor: Inquisitive (51)Type: Explorer (29)Flavor: Magic (36)Focus: Separates mind from body (77)Origin: Shift #0Aspect: Anchor Stats Age: 25Tier: 1Effort: 1XP: 0 Might: 10 (1)Speed: 12 (0)Intellect: 17 (1) Armor: – Recovery Rolls: 1d6+□ Action□ Ten Minutes (11 mins)□ One Hour (66 mins)□ Ten Hours (11…
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